The Road Not Taken

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The Road Not Taken

• Who am I and how does Robert Frosts poem relate
  to me?

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The Road Not Taken

• Some roads lead to nowhere and some lead to
  greatness but, all lead to discovery.
• All roads end but the search for meaning does
  not.
• Everything is context sensitiveeven human
  awareness.

3
What about the Class Not Taken?

• I shall be telling this with a sigh/ Somewhere
  ages and ages hence/ Two classes diverged in a
  syllabus, and I/ I took the one less registered
  by,
• Would I have been happier taking the other class?
• Or does it matter since I, like Frost, decide
  that it could be taken later, Oh, I kept the
  first for another day ?
• Though for that, the passing there / Had worn
  them really about the same

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But, this is the class (road) I chose

• This is the book that I read for the class that I
  took.
• It is not the book for the class I have not yet
  taken.
• I wonder if Frost would read this if he were in
  this class.

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What does that say about me?

• It says that I chose the road open to me at the
  time.
• It says that I am dedicated (otherwise I would
  have dropped by now).
• It says that I am all the things depicted
  hereand more.

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Who are we?

• Frost was a poet who found ambiguity and regret
  in his life.
• I am a poet who finds ambiguity but refuse to
  hold onto regrets.
• We are both humans who are complex and unique
  and who know that roads can be traveled more than
  once and that there is never a road not taken
  but just roads not yet taken.

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Charting Me
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If I could graph myself as a student as the
semester progresses
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Sowho am I really?

• I am a poet
• I am a student
• I am a teacher
• I am a mother
• I am a friend
• I am a worker
• I am a traveler
• I am more than I was when this class (and poem)
  began.

• I am ready to ride down my next open road.

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The many aspects of me
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Bibliography

• www.as220.org/livingliterature/S_A_frost.jpg
• http//www.neiu.edu/aldearma/
• http//www.online-literature.com/frost/
• Music
• My World by Avril Lavigne from her album Let
  Go
• Arista Records, 2002